Re: [PATCH] MIPS: reserve the memblock right after the kernel

Hi!

On 13/11/2020 03:30, Jiaxun Yang wrote:

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2) The check_kernel_sections_mem() method can be removed. But it should be done carefully. We at least need to try to find all the platforms, which rely on its functionality.

It have been more than 10 years since introducing this this check, but I believe there must be a reason at the time.

It doesn't look like 10 years to me :)

commit a94e4f24ec836c8984f839594bad7454184975b1 Author: Jiaxun Yang jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com Date: Mon Aug 19 22:23:13 2019 +0800

MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map

at least not so long in public, that's why we only noticed recently, that is breaks Octeon platform.